Yuri Dmitrievich Budanov
Yuri Dmitrijewitsch Budanow ( Russian Юрий Дмитриевич Буданов ; born November 24, 1963 in Kharzyssk , Donetsk Oblast , Ukrainian SSR ; † June 10, 2011 in Moscow ) was a Russian officer who was convicted of war crimes in the Second Chechen War .
Life
Yuri Budanov was the first Russian officer to be tried for a crime in the Chechen war. The holder of the Order of Valor (Orden Muschestwa) was charged with kidnapping, mistreating and then murdering 18-year-old Chechen Elsa Kungajewa , whom he suspected of being a rebel sniper , on March 27, 2000 . Anna Politkovskaya reported on the crime and the attempts by high authorities to protect the medalist.
In July 2003, Budanov was found guilty by a military tribunal after a two-year trial and sentenced to ten years in prison. Officer rank and the order of bravery were stripped from him. In 2004, the governor of Ulyanovsk and former commander in chief of the 58th Army in Chechnya, Vladimir Shamanov , filed a pardon for Budanov, which was rejected.
On January 15, 2009, Yuri Budanov was released early from prison, which not only met with criticism from human rights groups. Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov also took part in demonstrations against Budanov's release in Grozny . The lawyer for Kungayeva's family, Stanislav Markelov , who announced that he would appeal against his release, was murdered on the street in Moscow on January 19, 2009.
On June 10, 2011, Budanov was shot six times, four of which hit him in the head, by strangers in the south of Moscow. In July 2011, the Chechen terrorist leader Doku Umarov declared that the killing of Budanov was Allah's punishment for a “sadist, villain, murderer” and announced “the same fate, the same retribution” for other Chechnya veterans.
Web links
- Boris Kaimakov: Will President Putin pardon Colonel Budanov? . In: Friday . September 24, 2004.
- Bernhard Clasen: Russian ex-colonel Budanow again at large . In: taz . January 16, 2009.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Esch: Deadly courage . In: Berliner Zeitung . January 21, 2009.
- ↑ Michael Ludwig: "Excited search for clues: Russia puzzles over the murder of a war criminal", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 28, 2011, p. 3
- ↑ a b "Colonel Budanov: The murderer hits the bullet" , Russia News , June 10, 2011.
- ^ Ina Ruck and Stephan Stuchlik: Murder in Moscow. Who shot Stanislav Markelov? WDR television 2009, approx. 30 min.
- ↑ Chechen rebel chief threatens Russian soldiers with death ( Memento from August 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
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| SURNAME | Budanov, Yuri Dmitrievich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Буданов, Юрий Дмитриевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian officer and war crimes in the Second Chechen War |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kharzyssk , Donetsk Oblast , Ukrainian SSR , USSR |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 10, 2011 |
| Place of death | Moscow |